Jimmy Carter gets teased a lot for his name. And though he has a soft, southern drawl like former President Carter, he has a totally different kind of talent.

Dorothy McCall will be the speaker at the next Sons of Norway cultural program at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17 in the fellowship hall at the First Lutheran Church, at the corner of Highway 395 and Yelm Street in Kennewick.

Brad Upton brings Valentine's comedy to Kennewick's Clover Island Inn starting at 8 p.m. Feb. 10.

The Love Me Tenor musical revue featuring Seattle's Four Tenors opens Feb. 10 at the Power House Theatre in Walla Walla.

The Dayton Acoustic Bluegrass Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at Skye Book & Brew on Main Street in Dayton.

Steel Magnolias, a Little Theatre production, runs Feb. 10-11, 17-18, 24-25 at The Little Theatre of Walla Walla, 1130 Sumach St., off Highway 12 in Walla Walla.

Margaret Bourke-White, a world-renown photographer, will be the subject of two presentations given by Lynne Iglitzin. The first starts at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 in the administrative building at Walla Walla University in College Place and will focus on the eye of the famous photographer.

Heart for the Arts, a fundraiser for the Academy of Children's Theatre, starts at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Lampson Hangar, 5222 Stearman Ave., near the Tri-Cities Airport.

Columbia Basin College's annual faculty art exhibit opens Feb. 13 and continues through March 8 at the Esvelt Gallery on the Pasco campus.

An Evening of Cole Porter music, performed by the Walla Walla Symphony, starts at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14 in Cordiner Hall on the Whitman College campus in Walla Walla.

BERLIN Billy Bob Thornton says his frustration at the state of films in America prompted him to direct his first feature in more than a decade, the 1960s family drama "Jayne Mansfield's Car."

NEW YORK Mark Salzman's latest book is based on a live performance.